Whip mount or button



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W. 0.1)ANIELS.

WHIP MOUNT 0R BUTTON No. 293,964. Patented Feb. 19, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WOLCOTT O. DANIELS, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WHIP MOUNT o3 BUTFTON'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,954, dated February 19, 1884.

' Application filed April 6, 1883. Renewed January 3, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVOLOOTT O. DANIELS, of Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new 5 and useful Improvement in Buttons or Mounts for Whips, of which the following is a specification and description.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, durable, and ornamental button or mount for whips, which may be made of dif ferent materials combined together to give a pleasing contrast and an ornamental appearance to the whip when finished; and I accomplish this by the construction substantially as I: hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I is a side view of a plain metallic ferrule used in the construction of my invention. Fig. II is a side View and end view of the ring to be secured on the outside of the ferrule. Fig. IIIis an end view of the plain ferrule with the ring placed thereon. Fig. IV is a sectional view at the axis of the ferrule at line A, showing the ring in place and the 2 5 metal spun or forced outward on each side of the ring, to form a fillet or annulet on each side of said ring, to retain the latter in place. Fig. V is'a side view of the finished button or mount, and Fig. VI shows the mount having one end of the ferrule closed and adapted to be placed on the butt of the whip.

In the drawings, 2 represents a plain ferrule, which may be made of any desirable thin metalsuch as sheet copper or brass, the latter beingpreferable-and of suitable thickness to be easily spun or molded by suitable tools commonly used in spinning metals; and 3 represents a ring, which I make of any dosirable and suitable rigid and solid material such as horn, hard rubber, ivory, bone, celluloid, or any other desired substance-andwhose exterior may be given any form or contour to produce any desired ornamental appearance. I make this ring 3 of such inner diameter as to fit snugly the exterior of the plain ferrule 2, and after the ring is placed on the ferrule I then place the ferrule on the end of an arbor or mandrel, and the latter in a lathe, and with a suitable tool I force or spin the metal of the 50 ferrule outward on each side of the ring 3 as the ferrule revolves, to form an annulet or fillet, 4, on each side of the ring 3. These fillets or annulets 4 may be of any desired ornamental form or contour in their cross-section, according to the form of the tool used in spinning the metal out, and they may be of substantially the same width, with the ring between, or one may be considerably wider and larger than the other, according to the fancy of the manufacturer. The mounts to be placed on the butt of the whip may be closed at one end, as shownin Fig. VI.

These mounts or buttons may be made very quickly and cheaply, and may be plated with silver or nickel or other metal; and the ring 3 may be made of celluloid, either in any single color or in different colors combined, so that a great variety of ornamentation may be produced, according to the nature of the mate rials of which the ring and ferrule are made.

It is evident that after once being in place on the ferrule and the fillets or annulets spun out the ring cannot by any possibility be displaced, except it be broken, in which case another mount may be substituted.

These mounts are made of different sizes, according to the position upon the whip which each is to occupythe larger ones to be placed near and at the butt, and the smaller ones nearer the tipand when in position they give a very desirable and pleasing finish to a whip. If desired, one may be placed at a suitable distance from the butt to serve as a socket-guard,, to prevent injury and wear to the whip by the upper end of the socket when the whip is placed therein.

I-do not claim a mount in which a textile fabric is wrought on the exterior of a metallic ferrule; but,

Having described my invention, what I do claimas new is A whip-mounting consisting of a metallic ferrule and an independent ring of rigid material mounted centrally thereon, and held in place by annular beads on either side of it, 5 all substantially as set forth.

WOLOOTT O. DANIELS.

Witnesses:

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